Argentina’s dictatorship in focus: the issue of the repressors’ daughters and sons by Teresa Basile

Abstract

This interview was born from an activity to be developed during the course History of the Present Time: theory and historiography, taught in the Postgraduate Program in History of the State University of Santa Catarina. Our goal is to introduce the research of Professor Teresa Basile, who studies about the second affected generation by the Argentina’s dictatorship in the 1970’s, in other words, the Argentine repressors’ children who condemn the crimes practiced by their parents. Basile explores the theme approaching the liasons between literature, violence, politics and memory cited in the Latin America researches so far. Thus, it comes to questions that drive us to realize the violence practiced by the State in a recent past, putting us at the center of the discussion about the maintenance of violence in the present and the stuggles to try to stop it in this day and age.